AFRICA. 
Ixghtful banks of the Gamtoos, I here made 
an ample harveft of rarities, and my collec- 
tion increafed very fenfibly. 
On the iith of September, at fix in the 
morning, we decamped. I had informed the 
neighbouring horde of my intention, and it 
was with the utmoft regret that they faw us 
depart. As for me, I could not leave them 
without being fenfibly affedled. Thefe good 
people had infpired me with a very ftrong at- 
tachment. " Can fo much mildnefs and fim- 
plicity," faid I, excite fo great contempt ? 
" Are thefe then the favages of Africa, who 
*' thirft after the blood of Europeans, and who 
cannot be approached without horror?" This 
goodnefs and affability gave me the greater 
confidence, as I was then really in the midft 
of a defart, and as nothing feemed to threaten 
me with danger in future. All this country, 
which is inhabited only by hordes of the ^ 
Gonaquas, differs eflentially from that belong- 
ing to the Hottentots of the colony. Thefe 
people have no direct intercourfe one with an- 
other : the former are called favage Hottentots^ 
Before I proceed any farther I fhall make a 
few obfervations, without which one could 
only 
